If you know of anything missing, please send email to Miles O'Neal. I have mentioned the mythical album he recorded in high school, but won't really believe it until I have details (and have preferably heard it and held it - my faith on this issue being weak... 8^)
``Yes, ladies and gentlemen, here it is, the one, the only, unofficial Mark Heard discography. I believe this is complete. If somebody knows of any other releases, bootlegs, etc., let me know. I've also included my own little summaries for each release, so take them for what they're worth (which probably isn't much). All of them were/are also available in cassette form. I didn't list that under "Format".''
Album Title Year Label Format ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Setting Yesterday Free 1972 (As Infinity + 3) LP Mark Heard 1975 AB Records LP On Turning To Dust 1978 Solid Rock LP Appalachian Melody 1979 Solid Rock LP Fingerprint 1980 Palmfrond LP Stop the Dominoes 1981 Home Sweet Home LP Victims Of the Age 1982 Home Sweet Home LP Eye Of the Storm 1983 Home Sweet Home/Myrrh LP Ashes and Light 1984 Home Sweet Home/Myrrh LP Mosaics 1985 Home Sweet Home/Myrrh LP Best Of - Acoustic 1985 Home Sweet Home/Myrrh LP Best Of - Electric 1985 Home Sweet Home/Myrrh LP (aka, The Greatest Hits of Mark Heard) Tribal Opera 1987 What? Records LP/CD Dry Bones Dance 1990 Fingerprint CD Second Hand 1991 Fingerprint CD Satellite Sky 1992 Fingerprint CD Reflections Of A Former Life 1993 Home Sweet Home CD High Noon 1993 Myrrh CD Orphans of God 1996 Fingerprint CD
Mark's real debut album. Extremely rare.
Side 1 Side 2 ------ ------ All My Trials Presence Of The Lord Life's Ocean Second Best Friend You Not Alone Morning Light A Place Inside Memory Love Friends
Names from the label provided by Tom Richards.
A full album description is available.
Mark's debut album. Home grown folk. Great stuff. Out of print.
Side 1 Side 2 ------ ------ On Turning To Dust 4:20 Solid Rock 2:25 Dinner At Grandma's 2:45 To Diane 3:07 Cabin In Gloryland 1:10 Greensleeves :43 A Friend 2:57 /There is a Fountain / 4:50 Abba's Lullabye 3:20 \Coming on Down the Road Passion Chorale :42 All 3:50Track times & some names provided by Miles O'Neal.
A full album description is available.
Produced by Larry Norman. Still folky, but with a bit more rock leanings. From the same era as other Norman-produced projects as Randy Stonehill's Welcome To Paradise and The Sky Is Falling and Daniel Amos' Horrendous Disc. Out of print.
Side 1 Side 2 ------ ------ On the Radio 3:38 Appalachian Melody 4:17 Castaway 3:26 Happy Cornbread Anniversary 1:48 Bless My Soul 4:04 Two Trusting Jesus 4:13 Here I Am (Once Again) 3:54 Jonah's Song 5:26 With the Setting Sun 1:42 Sidewalk Soliloquy 3:18 The Last Time 3:16 The Saints :22(Track times courtesy of Glenn Clack.
A rare import from Switzerland. Recorded during the time Mark spent with the late Francis Schaeffer at the La'Bri fellowship in Switzerland. GREAT folk (ala James Taylor) and great rock tunes as well. Out of print until recently, now available on CD!
Side 1 Side 2 ------ ------ I'm In Chains 3:39 Gimme Mine 3:23 Nowadays 3:25 All the Sleepless Dreamers 3:30 One More Time 3:02 Negative Charge 3:57 Epistle 2:50 Brown-Eyed Sue 3:20 Just the Same 3:19 Es Tut Mir Leid 1:55 Well-worn Pages 2:52 Remarks To Mr. McLuhan 2:05 Intro 0:25 Threefold Amen 0:23Track times courtesy of Miles O'Neal.
Mark's first project for Home Sweet Home, a label owned by Chris Christian. Intelligent rock and folk. Out of print.
Side 1 Side 2 ------ ------ One Of the Dominoes 4:23 Stuck In the Middle 4:39 Stranded At the Station 3:30 Call Me the Fool 3:11 You Could Lie To Me 4:02 I'm In Chains 3:25 One Night Stand 2:52 Lonely One 4:35 I'm Crying Again 3:29 To See Your Face 3:31*NOTE: This version of "I'm In Chains" is slightly different than the one on the Fingerprint l.p.
Track times courtesy of Miles O'Neal.
A full album description is available.
Insert text courtesy of Mark Mayhle.
Another great intelligent rock and folk album. GREAT songs, including "Heart of Hearts", with BGV's provided by a very young Leslie Phillips, who later covered the song on her debut LP in 1983. (For those who don't know, Leslie did 4 albums for the CCM industry, had a bit of a falling out with that industry - much too complex a story to go into here - married T-Bone Burnett, changed her "recording" name to Sam Phillips and has released three albums since). Out of print.
Side 1 Side 2 ------ ------ Victims Of the Age Growing Up Blind City Life Won't Let Up Dancing At the Policeman's Ball Faces In Cabs Everybody Loves a Holy War Nothing Is Bothering Me Heart Of Hearts Some Folks' World
A special release of some of Mark's acoustic-oriented material written over the previous few years. Great stuff. Out of print.
Side 1 Side 2 ------ ------ Eye Of the Storm In the Gaze Of the Spotlight's Eye The Pain That Plagues Creation Gimme Mine Castaway These Plastic Halos Well-worn Pages No One But You He Will Listen To You Moonflower*NOTE: These versions of "Castaway", "Well-worn Pages", and "Gimme Mine" are all different than those that appeared on previous albums.
Insert text courtesy of Mark Mayhle.
Another outstanding collection of intelligent rock. Glenn Kaiser and Darrell Mansfield did a cover of "Threw It Away" on their second blues project. Out of print.
Side 1 Side 2 ------ ------ The Winds Of Time 3:56 Straw Men 3:57 True Confessions 3:30 Age Of the Broken Heart 4:13 I Know What It's Like 3:34 Can't See the Light 4:56 To Be Loved Washed To the Sea 3:18 Threw It Away 4:00 We Beleive So Well 3:26 In Spite Of Himself 3:05Track times courtesy of Miles O'Neal.
Insert text courtesy of Mark Mayhle.
A decidedly rock album (more so than any up to this point) with a great cover of T-Bone Burnett's "The Power Of Love". Out of print.
Side 1 Side 2 ------ ------ With Broken Wings The Golden Age Schizophrenia The Power Of Love All Is Not Lost I Want You Heart On the Line It Will Not Be Like This Forever He Plays the Game Miracle
A good collection of some of Mark's acoustic-oriented songs, but a lame attempt by the record company to milk the record buying public unnecessarily. This was one of those contractual fulfillment obligation type things. Contained one song ("Family Name", written by Bill Batstone) previously unrealesed. Those weasels. Out of print.
Side 1 Side 2 ------ ------ Family Name I'm Crying Again Eye Of the Storm Some Folks' World Castaway* Can't See the Light In the Gaze Of the Spotlight's Eye True Confessions Call Me the Fool Well-worn Pages* To See Your Face In Spite Of Himself* These versions taken from the Eye Of the Storm album.
Same story as above, but with no new songs, so I didn't buy it. Out of print.
``Despite all the whining that people have done about this record, it's better than nothing if you don't have the albums it represents.'' -MrMandolin@aol.com
Side 1 Side 2 ------ ------ Heart of Hearts The Golden Age The Winds of Time One of the Dominoes Stranded at the Station Dancing at the Policeman's Ball Threw It Away One Night Stand Victims of the Age Nothing Is Bothering Me Stuck in the Middle Faces in Cabs
This project was actually released under the name Ideola rather than Mark Heard, although Mark wrote, performed, and produced the entire project. This was sort of an experimental thing for Mark, with lots of digital samples and electronic drums. Once again (and I know you're probably getting tired of hearing this, but it's true), GREAT songs, especially "How To Grow Up Big And Strong". Out of print.
Side 1 Side 2 ------ ------ I Am An Emotional Man Love Is Bigger Than Life Is It Any Wonder How To Grow Up Big and Strong Watching the Ship Go Down Everybody Dances Talk To Me Why Can't We Just Say No Go Ask the Dead Man Hold Back Your Tears
Yea! Mark's return after much too long an absence. This is a great CD of folk rock with a little country and cajun influences thrown in for good measure. In print.
Rise From the Ruins 3:03 The Dry Bones Dance 3:49 House Of Broken Dreams 4:13 Our Restless Hearts 3:43 Nobody's Looking 3:27 All She Wanted Was Love 4:21 Strong Hand Of Love 3:05 How Many Tears 3:01 Lonely Road 4:13 Waiting For A Reason 3:32 Everything Is Alright 4:24 Awake In the Nighttime 3:30 Mercy Of the Flame 4:59 Fire 7:14Track times courtesy of Miles O'Neal.
Mark's acclaimed follow-up to Dry Bones Dance, with a slightly more acoustic feel overall. There's a cool cover of the old Beatles song, "I'm Looking Through You". The song "Look Over Your Shoulder" made it onto a Windam Hill sampler disk. In print.
Nod Over Coffee 4:37 Lonely Moon 4:54 Worry Too Much 4:13 Look Over Your Shoulder 3:29 She Don't Have A Clue 3:46 Talking In Circles 4:05 Love Is Not the Only Thing 4:58 I Just Wanna Get Warm 3:54 Another Good Lie 5:39 All Too Soon 3:56 It's Not Your Fault 3:23 I'm Looking Through You 3:40 What Kind Of A Friend 2:42 The Way Of Men 5:09Track times courtesy of Miles O'Neal.
Mark's final "new" release, considered by many to be his best. A great collection of rock and folk tunes. In print.
Tip Of My Tongue 4:22 Satellite Sky 3:48 Big Wheels Roll 4:02 Orphans Of God 6:22 Another Day In Limbo 4:31 Language Of Love 4:06 Freighttrain To Nowhere 4:30 Long Way Down 4:42 A Broken Man 5:42 Love Is So Blind 3:15 Hammers And Nails 4:40 We Know Too Much 5:58 Lost On Purpose 4:20 Nothing But the Wind 3:31 Treasure Of the Broken Land 6:22Track times courtesy of Miles O'Neal.
A recently-released collection of some of Mark's songs from his mid-80's Home Sweet Home days, meaning that decision to release it must have come from Chris Christian, who owns the rights to most of Mark's older material. It apparently was released without any coordination or input from Janet. Some of the editing is sloppy, and it's a poor substitute for the re-release of the old albums in their entirety. Many serious Heard fans boycotted this one. But, for those who just can't wait, it is a way for newer fans to get some of Mark's older material, and it even has a couple of cuts from the Swiss import LP. True Tunes had a deal where if you ordered it from them, they would send some of the money to Janet to help her financial situation since Mark's death. They're probably still doing it, so if you buy it, order it from them. In print.
Stranded At the Station Dancing At the Policeman's Ball Threw It Away Heart Of Hearts The Winds Of Time Stuck In the Middle Eye Of the Storm Family Name One Of the Dominoes Nothing Is Bothering Me Carry On* Brown-Eyed Sue* Actually, "All the Sleepless Dreamers".
A collection of songs from Mark's last three CD's. Originally scheduled to be released on the True North label, this is really a nice collection that also includes Mark's contribution to Steve Hindalong and Derri Daugherty's (of The Choir) At The Foot Of the Cross project, "My Redeemer Lives", as well as 4 previously unreleased songs. In print.
Strong Hand Of Love I Just Wanna Get Warm Look Over Your Shoulder My Redeemer Lives Another Day In Limbo She's Not Afraid* The Dry Bones Dance House Of Broken Dreams Everything Is Alright Hammers And Nails Love Is So Blind Nod Over Coffee Love Is Not the Only Thing No* Shaky Situation* Orphans Of God What Kind Of A Friend* Treasure Of the Broken Land* Previously unreleased, except for "What Kind Of A Friend", which is a different version.
A 2 disc tribute album with various artists covering Mark's songs. A Fingerprint release (the good guys!). In print.
Orphans of God : Buddy and Julie Miller 4:21 We Know Too Much : Michael Been 5:04 Freight Train to Nowhere : The Vigilantes of Love 3:54 It's Not Your Fault : Ashley Cleveland 4:00 I Just Wanna Get Warm : Dan Russell 3:40 Satellite Sky : Kate Taylor 4:35 Mercy of the Flame : Pat Terry 5:17 Rise from the Ruins : Brooks Williams 4:32 Strong Hand of Love : Bruce Cockburn 3:11 What Kind of Friend : Victoria Williams 5:25 House of Broken Dreams : The Williams Brothers 3:27 Tip of My Tongue : Tom Prasada-Rao 6:50 Everything is Alright : Phil Keaggy 5:00 Big and Strong : Olivia Newton-John 4:32 All She Wanted Was Love : Big Faith 3:42 Another Good Lie : hezze 5:06 Treasure of the Broken Land : Chagall Guevara 6:04
Lonely Moon : Kevin Smith 5:12 Worry Too Much : Harrod and Funck 5:03 Fire : bob 4:44 Big Wheels Roll : John Austin 5:51 Rise from the Ruins : Parmin Sisters 5:00 Watching the Ships Go Down : Iain 5:56 Another Day in Limbo : Tonio K. 3:50 Love is so Blind : Carolyn Arends 3:41 Nod Over Coffee : Pierce Pettis 4:24 Remarks To Mr. McLuhan : Ramona Silver 1:46 Long Way Down : Swinging Steaks 4:20 Look Over Your Shoulder : Randy Stonehill & Kate Miner 4:06 Threw It Away : Glen Kaiser 4:57 Dry Bones Dance : Colin Linden 4:16 Tip Of My Tongue : The Choir 4:41 Strong Hand of Love : da 3:39 Hammer and Nails : Marvin Etzioni 7:09(Tracks & times courtesy of Tom Moellering.
Tom also reviewed this album.
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